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...paraphrase the grammar school boff, what are they going to eat in the House of Lords? They won't be able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu...
...staff three specialized institutions for the treatment of burns (the most common of childhood's accidents) in Galveston, Boston, and Cincinnati. He succeeds to an office once held by Actor Harold Lloyd, assumes leadership of more than three-quarters of a million men, currently including Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, Irving Berlin, and, quite naturally, Senator Barry Goldwater. Past members include Ty Cobb and Franklin D. Roosevelt; Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Virgil Grissom are new recruits. Omar Brock neither smokes nor (unlike his Persian namesake) drinks, has no superstitions. "You learn...
...rest of the staff is horribly erratic. Bill Monboquette, a 20-game winner last season, has won three games this year. Two other starters, Jack Lamabe and Dave Morehead, are almost as undependable. Only fastballer Earl Wilson, very mediocre last season, has performed consistently well; his record...
...when he made that declaration, Earl Warren was the Republican Governor of California. It was a statement with which almost all elective officeholders could agree. But times change, and so do jobs and outlooks. And last week Warren, now in the robes of Chief Justice of the U.S., wrote an opinion for a 6-to-3 Supreme Court majority that not only flew in the face of his earlier ideas but considerably changed the complexion of U.S. state politics...
...Should two such diverse areas as Northern and Southern California both be dominated by the single county of Los Angeles? Already some Northern Californians are renewing the old plea for statehood of their own. Their rallying cry: "Would you want your daughter to marry a surfer?" Finally, as Governor Earl Warren once insisted, are not the many minority interests more important to the welfare of a state than their population indicates...